The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-07
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


GEORGE W. CABLE entertained delegation of
cclored men who called upon him at Richmond.
Va, on the back porch of the hotel
HOLLOWAY, the great quack pill man, who re-
Gently died, has wiled his immense fortune to a
stranger and left his aged sisters penniless.
THE late DIR. Velpeau, of Paris, thought and
bluntly said that for physical reasons women are
not to be depended upon as physicians and their
adoption of that profession is absurd.
ANOTHER of the ''six hundred" is gone. Ser
geant George Wilde who died a fortnight ago at
Norwich, England, had three horses killed un
der him in the famous charge at Balaklava
SOME trickster inserted the letter into a bill
pending in the Illinois Legislature. II the trick
had not been discovered it would have been il
legal to sell 'spools' on race tracks 10 that
State.
THE latest journalistic gossip from New York
is to the effect that Charles A. Dana is to retire
from active service on the Sur at the close of
the year. to be succeeded editorin-chief by
his son Paul.
THE death of Mr.. Wheeler leaves Hannibal
Hamlin the only living ex-Vice president chosen
by the people. He will be seventy eight years
of age in August. and he was elected Vice-pres-
dent twenty seven years ago.
WHEN Chief justice Noah Davis was a youth,
q man who didn't drink alcoholic beverages was
considered milksop, but from observing their
effects others Davis took great dislike to the
stuff, which has stuck by him through life
Don CARLOS of Spain, says that his visit to
this hemisphere has nothing to do with politics
He is now in South America. The object of his
visit is to obtain a better acquaintance with
Spanish America and to carry back to his coun-
trymen the truth about many matters which are
not understood in Spain.
IN one of the recently published letters of
Thackeray, the great humorist tells how he once
tried to persuade Macaulay to change identity
with him in order to deceive an American lady
who was dying to interview the two literary
lions. Macaulay did not appreciate practical
joke, and the scheme fell through
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAINS principal occupation
at this time is said TO be living IN the Madison
square Park. and making friends with the chill
dren and the birds. Every year the speech
which he made quarter of a century ago and
10 which he predicted that Omaha would become
a great and prosperous city, is reproduced By all
the Omaha papers.
1T is said in London that Marshall p Wilder
was approached recently and sounded to
whether he would accept the position of Queens
jester during the Jubilee year. The stalwart
little American declined the honor the
ground that he could not sacrifice his patriotic
feelings sufficiently to enable him to accept an
Office under the British government
THE reason a West Virginia preacher walked
into Charleston without any clothes on and look
ing like piece of raw beef was because he met
bear two miles out of town and the bear
wanted to have little fun with him. The
preacher depended upon the Lord for the first
ten minutes. but after that used his jack-knife
and club and Satan was finally put to rout
AT Queen Victoria's recent state ball Prince
Henry of Battenberg at first appeared wearing
black gloves These were seen to leave marks
on the white dress of the Princess Victoria.
Then the Prince of Wales approached him and
whispered in German. English etiquette pre-
scribes white gloves" Prince Henry
slipped out of the room, and when he returned
his hands were clothed in white.
The discussion as to whether not Admiral
Farragut really dashed to the mast Of the
Hartford still goes merrily Various eye
witnesses have given strangely contradictory
ties timony in the matter. One man says he
tied with rope, another says he was not tied at
ALL and now a Rochester clergyman rises to
sert that the Admirals wrist was fastened to the
rigging by piece of cord There is time yet for
some one to enliven the subject by asserting
that mucilage was really the means employed
to keep the bold commander aloft
THE Queen has decided to be present in per-
at the jubilee ceremonial at Westminster
Abbey and at the reception. Her Majesty will
occupy the grand state coach which she used at
her coronation. She refuses to wear the i'm
perial crown, and has selected a diadem with
lace veil and robe of pale mauve silk covered
with white lace, with train of deep purple vel
vet lined with ermne. Fifteen state carriages,
conveying the members of the royal family in
gala costume. will follow the Queens coach with
state liveres and outriders and military escorts.
The whole affair will be gorgeous court spec
tacte.
MEMORIAL day, which was moro generally OBJ
served in the South than ever before by the dec
Grafton of the graves of both federal and confed
crate soldiers, had pathetic incident worth no
ticing. clergy man from Michigan, who
obliged to postpone address at Chattanooga
on account of the rain, visited grave of Hi
nois colonel, whose funeral sermon he had
preached in 1864. At the grave he found sixteen
veterans of the colonefs regiment, who had come
from Chicago to decorate the grave of their COM
mander There they met the minister who had
preached the funeral sermon in their presence
and beside the same grave.